Every
Tuesday, Eastman students, faculty, and alumni present free organ
concerts at Christ Church in downtown Rochester. Come out on your next
lunch break!

Caroline Robinson is pursuing the Doctorate of
Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and Literature in the studio of
David Higgs, having completed the Masters at Eastman in 2016. Originally from
Greenville, SC, Caroline received her Bachelor of Music at the Curtis Institute
of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Alan Morrison. Upon being
awarded a grant from the J. William Fulbright fellowship fund, Caroline spent
the 2013-14 school year in Toulouse, France, where she studied at the
Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional under Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen
(organ), as well as Yasuko Bouvard (harpsichord). Caroline is the First Prize
winner of the 11th Annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival (2008) and in the
Tenth Annual West Chester University Organ Competition (2010). She was a
quarterfinalist in the 2017 St. Albans International Organ Festival. As a young
performer, Caroline has had the opportunity to perform at several important
venues, including the famed Wanamaker organ at Macy’s (Philadelphia), Verizon
Hall at the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), St. Thomas Fifth Avenue (NYC),
Harvard Memorial Church (Cambridge, MA), and the Kauffman Center (Kansas City).
She has given recitals at the 2015 AGO Region III Convention and the 2015 and
2016 OHS Conventions. She is the recipient of the 2016 Peter B. Knock Scholarship
Fund award and was named one of 2016 “20 Under 30” in the profession by
the Diapason magazine. She currently works as Assistant Organist to Director of
Music Peter DuBois at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester. She also serves
as the Executive Assistant for Outreach within Eastman Rochester Organ
Initiative (EROI).

Amanda
Mole is originally from Holden, Massachusetts and is currently a
Doctor of Musical Arts candidate studying with David Higgs at the Eastman
School of Music. In 2011, Amanda graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred
Music and the School of Music with a Master of Music degree in Organ
Performance and Sacred Music. During her time at Yale, Amanda studied organ
with Martin Jean and Choral Conducting with Maggie Brooks, and was the only
candidate in her class to receive the Church Music Studies Certificate for
additional sacred music and theological studies. Prior to Yale, she obtained a
Bachelor of Music degree with honors at Eastman while studying with William
Porter, and, prior to Eastman, she studied with Larry Schipull and Patricia
Snyder. Amanda has also completed the requirements for a minor in Choral
Conducting during her doctorate. She has participated in masterclasses with several
accomplished organists, including Jon Laukvik, Ludger Lohmann, Alan Morrison,
Jacques van Oortmerssen, Stephen Tharp, Thomas Trotter, and Harald Vogel, among
others.

Amanda has performed internationally at venues across the USA and Europe.
In 2015, she was a featured performer at the New Haven Regional American Guild
of Organists Convention. In 2016, she joined the roster of concert artists at
the Organ Historical Society Convention in Philadelphia and received consistent
excellent reviews in The American Organist, The Diapason, and The Tracker
magazines, hailing her as a rising “star” and describing her as playing “with
authority and flair.”Amanda has also been featured several times on the radio
show Pipedreams LIVE!.

Amanda is the first-place and audience prize winner of the 2016 Miami
International Organ Competition, and the first-place winner of the 2014 Arthur
Poister Organ Competition, the 2014 John Rodland Memorial Organ Competition,
and the 2014 Peter B. Knock Award. She was a finalist in the 2015 Bach-Liszt
International Organ Competition in Erfurt, Germany, and in 2017, she served as
a juror for the 24th annual L. Cameron Johnson Organ Competition in Storrs, CT.
Amanda is a six-time winner of the American Baptist Scholarship and an
eight-time winner of the National Religious Music Week Scholarship. She
is the Director of Music at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Rochester, NY, and
at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Webster, NY.

This concert is free and open to the public.

General ESM Concert Info

All concerts are free unless otherwise noted. All concerts listed are open to the public. Please note that all concerts are subject to change.